Disentangling the Drivers of Australian Animal Diversity . This project aims to complete the construction of powerful comparative and replicated data sets to determine how historical climatic shif

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Disentangling the Drivers of Australian Animal Diversity . This project aims to complete the construction of powerful comparative and replicated data sets to determine how historical climatic shifts and competition impacted the evolution of size and shape across 16 groups of Australian animals. Expected outcomes include complete and evolutionary trees for all of Australia’s frogs and reptiles and sophisticated tests of hypotheses concerning the origin and diversity of our wildlife. The project will develop and share novel analytical methods and approaches that others will use. Practical benefits include generation of comprehensive trait data for the government’s flagship and publicly available Atlas of Living Australia for biodiversity analyses by diverse stakeholders. . Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3104 - Evolutionary Biology. Lead: Prof J. Scott Keogh